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New location for Vashon parks meeting June 24 | Meetings Schedule

The Vashon Park District board of commissioners will hold a meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 24. The meeting will be held in a special location, at Fern Cove, rather than the usual meeting location of Ober Park.

Sewer

The Vashon Sewer District will hold its monthly meeting at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, June 19, at the Vashon Senior Center.

honors

Eric Davidheiser

Eric Davidheiser of Vashon, a junior at the college preparatory Hill School in Pottstown, Penn., earned 2008 All Mid-Atlantic Prep League Honors for boys lacrosse.

Davidheiser also received a “Major H” blanket, recognizing his accomplishment of earning at least nine varsity letters in his time at Hill School.

Clay Lewis

Clay Sebastian Lewis of Vashon graduated from Ursinus College with a bachelor of arts degree in business and economics and a minor in politics on Saturday, May 17, 2008.

A graduate of Vashon High School, Lewis is the son of Islander Elizabeth Lewis. Ursinus College is located in Collegeville, Penn., 28 miles from Philadelphia.

Dillon Lockwood

Dillon C. Lockwood of Vashon has graduated from the University of Washington with a bachelor of arts degree in international studies from the Henry Jackson School of International Studies. He also completed a minor in Russian language, literature and culture.

Lockwood is the son of Will and Karen Lockwood of Vashon. He graduated from Vashon High School in 2003.

volunteer

Group forming

Islander Andrea Walker is organizing a crew from Vashon to volunteer in New Orleans for a week before the end of the year with the Unitarian Universalists Service Committee (non-Sectarian).

There are still injustices happening that divide the recovery effort on many socio-economic fronts, and there are still lots of ways to help, she said. If interested, contact Walker at walkerking@centurytel.net or 463-5844.

sheriff’s report

Red Bicycle stabbing

King County sheriffs were dispatched to the Red Bicycle Bistro & Sushi front entrance at 1:12 a.m. Sunday, June 15. A white male Islander, 43, had been stabbed in the left wrist. He was standing outside the bar with a bloody paper towel covering his wound, according to King County Sheriff’s Department spokesperson John Urquhart.

The victim had been drinking with friends and the suspect, whom he did not know. After an argument, the suspect pulled a double-bladed knife, stabbed the victim and fled the bar.

The sheriff’s department brought a helicopter to the vicinity to search for the “suspect on the loose,” Urquhart said, but ultimately apprehended him inside his mother’s home at 3:35 a.m. The 23-year-old suspect, a white male Islander, was booked into King County Jail on suspicion of first-degree assault. The victim was treated for injury at the scene and released.

poodles gather

Point Robinson

At 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, June 22, at Point Robinson, all Island poodles and their canine and human friends are invited to gather for a “poodle playdate” in memory of Karla Hill, beloved Islander and the organizer of Vashon’s poodles. For more information, e-mail gonebackpacking@yahoo.com or call 567-4236.

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